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The Business

Michelle Yeoh on Oscar nom: ‘Shocking, overwhelming and very emotional’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in the sci-fi action-fantasy “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” an unexpected feat for the veteran. In this extended conversation, she talks about the film and its success, and delves back into her life-long career spanning from her aspirations to becoming a ballerina as a child, to the evolution of acceptance for Asian-represented movies. First, Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced he is open to selling Hulu, just a day after the company’s Q1 earnings call. 

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:05.6

Believe it or not, Michelle Yeo is the first Asian woman to be Oscar nominated for best actress.

0:11.1

That's not something she could have predicted when she first read the off-the-wall script for everything everywhere all at once.

0:17.7

As I read it, I was like, okay, hot dog fingers, not sure what they're talking about.

0:21.6

Confetti man, okay, that's cool.

0:24.6

Rocks talking to and nudging each other off cliff.

0:27.6

That's also cool.

0:29.6

But plugs, oh my God.

0:31.6

In this special extended episode of the business, Michelle Yeo talks about her early days doing her own stunts in Hong Kong martial

0:38.4

arts films, suffering serious injuries and a fateful visit from Quentin Tarantino. But first we banter,

0:45.5

stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

0:54.5

Hello.

0:55.3

So tons of ground to cover on Disney. Let me just set this up as fast as I can.

1:00.1

Bob Eiger first did an earnings call, and he made a number of points, one of which is he is undoing the reorganization that his predecessor as CEO, Bob Chappick, had put in place.

1:10.1

He is returning the power of the purse to creative executives.

1:13.6

He feels they should be in charge.

1:15.2

So there will be three silos.

1:17.2

One will be Dana Walden, who oversees TV, and Alan Bergman, who has overseen film.

1:22.2

They're going to add streaming and international, I think, to their remit.

1:25.4

Then there will be a silo for ESPN, all of ESPN and a

1:30.0

separate silo, and a third will be the seam parks and consumer products. This gives him a certain

1:36.0

amount of flexibility going forward. He also announced more than $5 billion in cost cutting. Unfortunately,

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